Walter In Denver

You are exactly right on that one, pathetic. I also was trying to follow the news out of Madrid today and had to watch the spanish channels who are handling it as a continuous broadcast, sort of like 9/11. Sometimes our cultural centric US makes me sick. We can't see past our own selfish interests and in many cases such as this our own interests are threatened by our ignorance of what is happening out there.

I'm not suprised, news reporting in Denver is horrible.

Another example:

Last night, our local NBC affiliate, Channel 9, did one of those "news plugs" during a commercial break during The Apprentice. You know, the kind where the anchor appears, tells you a snippet of a story, and how you should probably watch their news over any other.

So, what was it? Was it "200 dead in terrorist attack?" Was it "Al Qaeda makes possible threat against United States?"

No, no, of course not, don't be silly. It was "Former POW Private Jessica Lynch changes her wedding plans. The details at 9 o'clock."

GAHHHH!

My few-seconds glance at the stories leading on the 6 p.m. tv broadcasts in Denver, a few moments ago, were mostly the upcoming Senate race.

PBS, which is what I usually watch at 6, after flipping through the 5:30 network broadcasts to see what they're doing, led with Spain in the news summary, and will do in depth as the first story after the summary; next story up in the summary is the South Korean impeachment.

There are plenty of negative things to say about PBS, some right, some wrong, but the PBS Newshour has pretty good news judgment, and tends to look at things rather carefully. (If people want to slag public broadcasting for being "too liberal," I think their case is about 50 times better against NPR than the PBS Newshour.)

(Yes, I know the arguments against having government money go for this; they have some merit, but I'm not deeply exercised in either direction.)